Case surfaced after state refused to list nonbirthing parent on birth certificate

The Iowa Supreme Court Friday affirmed a district court ruling that both spouses in a lesbian marriage should be listed on a childs birth certificate.

The court ordered the Iowa Department of Public Health to reissue a birth certificate to Melissa and Heather Gartner, of Des Moines, for their daughter, Mackenzie Jean, who was born in September 2009. The department refused to list Melissa, the nonbirthing parent, on the birth certificate.

It is important our laws recognize that married lesbian couples who have children enjoy the same benefits and burdens as married opposite-sex couples who have children, the court wrote in a 29-page decision issued Friday.

By naming the nonbirthing spouse on the birth certificate of a married lesbian couples child, the child is ensured supported from that parent and that parents establishes fundamental rights at the moment of birth, the ruling states.

They put the non-biological father on the birth certificate ALL THE TIME. The law doesn’t care about DNA, they care about the law. The husband of a woman who gives birth is legally the father - even if he isn’t the biological father. Kind of a messed up situation for some - their wife cheats on them - gets pregnant - and they are legally responsible for support of the resulting child.

Fun fun fun!

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posted on 05/03/2013 10:28:53 AM PDT
by allmendream
(Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)

Well, in this day and age, I’d like to see a “partner”, spirtual, emotional or otherwise be potentially held legally responsible for a life they commit to being, transitioned or sustained in whatever manner in support of their deviate lifestyle.

I actually see this as a stakehold in repsponsibility that lashes the other, not child-bearing partner, to a potential financial responsibility other than the poor schmuck man they may or may not have tricked into their deviate schemes.

Bring it on! Make both of them carpet munchers responsible for that life they misdirected and probably ruined. I say good.

This is going to really mess up genealogy research down the road. What they deem as “cute” or politically correct... roadblocks that child from finding out their true heritage or bloodline. Also, just gives them something else they can hate you for when they want answers to, “where is my Dad?”

It is also important that birth certificate follow scientific principles of reproduction and list the genetic parents from whom the offspring has sprung, a genetic paper trail, if you will, which may be valuable later in life in diagnosing disorders and charting mutations.

If your article tells the whole story (and, if this was Kansas), a doctor would still be required to absolve the sperm donor of any responsibility. (Why is that? Why isn't a contract sufficient? Is the doctors' lobby that strong in KS?)

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posted on 05/03/2013 10:59:45 AM PDT
by newgeezer
(It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)

It is important our laws recognize that married lesbian couples who have children enjoy the same benefits and burdens as married opposite-sex couples who have children, the court wrote in a 29-page decision issued Friday.

I've scoured our constitutions again and a again, and no matter how many times I look, the legislative branch is the only branch with lawmaking power given to it.

What an evil, Frankensteinian thing to do to human beings.....denying the Truth and Natural Law and artificially constructing an irrational reality for a child so he can not grow up in a realistic world. Always governed by “feelings” and never reaching maturity where Reason rules the emotions.

How evil and dehumanizing and selfish are these Marxists.

And to think we have a ‘Justice” system that denies Natural Laws (Science) and Reality and Truth. It is disgusting and evil and unconstitutional.

I understand that since MD has instituted/passed/signed the ‘do funny marriage bill’ that come 1JAN if a ‘couple’ are partners and NOT MARRIED, they will revert to just another shack up and will not be able to share bennies UNTIL they get married.
Watch the FALLOUT from this little act.

Not only will ‘they’ be suing because the state is FORCING them to marry, once they WIN (and surely they will) the regular shack ups will declare that since the ‘do funnys’ can share bennies without getting married, then the straight shack ups should get bennies also.

And figure that not soon after, conventional room mates (as we know them..share house/apt etc WITH NO SEX INVOLVED) will be clamoring to get in on the act.

SO FAR this just is for State Employees BUT you can imagine the rest of the state will attempt to follow suit. (Dependent on who ‘benefits’ from it).

this could be a game changer as far as child support goes...because these judges just said it didn't matter who the bio parents were, just that two names go down on a paper saying they're parents for financial reasons...now its official...now its legal....they can't go after the baby daddy after the lezbos break up....because he would have NO official status...and he apparently is NOT the parent, let alone the father...

I don't mean to be hating on homosexuals....but its gone just too damn far especially when it comes to the welfare of a child...

let’s get this straight, two woman cannot produce a child, so a child, any child, when born is not the result of human reproduction of two women and yet a “birth certificate” - a certificate recording the result of an act of human reproduction, which cannot be an act achieved by two women, is suppose to lie about what “a birth” means and state, in error of the facts, that the child’s biological mother and her girlfriend are both “mother” of the child

it makes no sense whatsoever and the fact that it makes no sense stands regardless of anyone’s opinion about anyone being “gay”

Just another example of the re-definition of marriage also redefining parenthood and a multitude of other realities.

And, whoever controls the debate gets to define the terms.

For example, who the **** knows (or cares) what "infringed" means anymore?

The very first time the SCOTUS handed down an anti-Constitutional ruling and it was allowed to stand, the writing was on the wall. The actual words in the Constitution mean NOTHING. Dubya's Chief Justice John Roberts made that quite clear with his Obamacare insanity. That may have been the final tipping point. Our precarious 5-4 majority is dissolving before our eyes and will soon be gone. "God Bless America" indeed. He did, even while America kept telling Him to get lost.</rant>

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posted on 05/03/2013 1:32:39 PM PDT
by newgeezer
(It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)

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